W3C recommends: Avoid ASCII Art
From Lennert Stock <lst...@lstock.demon.nl>
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· 5 Feb 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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Read on http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-WAI-PAGEAUTH-0203.html, the World Wide Web Consortium's new Web Accessibility Initiative Draft Guidelines: >6.[RECOMMENDED] >Avoid ASCII art. Replace it with an image and alternative text. >Common typographic characters or constructions to be avoided are >emoticons, arrows consisting of dashes and greater than >signs (e.g., -->), etc. Ouch ;) -- Lennert Stock Demon Internet - http://www.demon.nl/ Smash forehead on keyboard to continue...
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